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20 Biggest Dividend Payers From The Utility Sector

Largest
Utility Dividend Stocks Researched By “long-term-investments.blogspot.com”. The utility sector offers
a stable investment environment with high dividend yields and robust business models.
Let’s take a look at the biggest dividend stocks.The
whole sector has a total market capitalization of USD 22.01 trillion and
includes 119 stocks of which 104 pay dividends. I made a screen of the biggest
dividend payer within the utility sector. Below the 20 biggest dividend stocks
are 13 electric utilities; Two of them are high yields.

Exelon Corporation (NYSE:EXC) has a market capitalization of $30.65 billion. The company employs 19,267 people, generates revenue of $18,924.00 million and has a net income of $2,495.00 million. The firm’s earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization (EBITDA) amounts to $5,815.00 million. The EBITDA margin is 30.73 percent (operating margin 23.67 percent and net profit margin 13.18 percent).
Financial Analysis:
The total debt represents 24.49 percent of the company’s assets and the total debt in relation to the equity amounts to 93.79 percent. Due to the financial situation, a return on equity of 17.86 percent was realized. Twelve trailing months earnings per share reached a value of $2.43. Last fiscal year, the company paid $2.10 in form of dividends to shareholders.
Market Valuation:
Here are the price ratios of the company: The P/E ratio is 14.78, P/S ratio 1.62 and P/B ratio 1.66. Dividend Yield: 5.85 percent. The beta ratio is 0.51.

Long-Term Stock History Chart Of Exelon Corporation (Click to enlarge)

Long-Term Dividends History of Exelon Corporation (EXC) (Click to enlarge)

National Grid (NYSE:NGG) has a market capitalization of $40.96 billion. The company employs 25,645 people, generates revenue of $22,316.52 million and has a net income of $3,288.10 million. The firm’s earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization (EBITDA) amounts to $7,649.12 million. The EBITDA margin is 34.28 percent (operating margin 25.08 percent and net profit margin 14.73 percent).
Financial Analysis:
The total debt represents 48.64 percent of the company’s assets and the total debt in relation to the equity amounts to 249.22 percent. Due to the financial situation, a return on equity of 22.25 percent was realized. Twelve trailing months earnings per share reached a value of $4.58. Last fiscal year, the company paid $3.17 in form of dividends to shareholders.
Market Valuation:
Here are the price ratios of the company: The P/E ratio is 12.29, P/S ratio 1.84 and P/B ratio 2.80. Dividend Yield: 5.53 percent. The beta ratio is 0.62.

Long-Term Stock History Chart Of National Grid (Click to enlarge)

Long-Term Dividends History of National Grid (NGG) (Click to enlarge)

Long-Term Dividend Yield History of National Grid (NYSE: NGG) (Click to enlarge)

Duke Energy (NYSE:DUK) has a market capitalization of $45.75 billion. The company employs 18,440 people, generates revenue of $14,529.00 million and has a net income of $1,713.00 million. The firm’s earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization (EBITDA) amounts to $4,575.00 million. The EBITDA margin is 31.49 percent (operating margin 19.06 percent and net profit margin 11.79 percent).
Financial Analysis:
The total debt represents 33.59 percent of the company’s assets and the total debt in relation to the equity amounts to 92.22 percent. Due to the financial situation, a return on equity of 7.53 percent was realized. Twelve trailing months earnings per share reached a value of $3.36. Last fiscal year, the company paid $2.97 in form of dividends to shareholders.
Market Valuation:
Here are the price ratios of the company: The P/E ratio is 19.33, P/S ratio 3.15 and P/B ratio 1.27. Dividend Yield: 4.71 percent. The beta ratio is 0.33.

Consolidated Edison (NYSE:ED) has a market capitalization of $17.64 billion. The company employs 15,016 people, generates revenue of $12,938.00 million and has a net income of $1,062.00 million. The firm’s earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization (EBITDA) amounts to $3,123.00 million. The EBITDA margin is 24.14 percent (operating margin 17.31 percent and net profit margin 8.21 percent).
Financial Analysis:
The total debt represents 27.22 percent of the company’s assets and the total debt in relation to the equity amounts to 91.64 percent. Due to the financial situation, a return on equity of 9.34 percent was realized. Twelve trailing months earnings per share reached a value of $3.61. Last fiscal year, the company paid $2.40 in form of dividends to shareholders.
Market Valuation:
Here are the price ratios of the company: The P/E ratio is 16.67, P/S ratio 1.36 and P/B ratio 1.42. Dividend Yield: 4.02 percent. The beta ratio is 0.22.

Long-Term Stock History Chart Of Consolidated Edison (Click to enlarge)

Long-Term Dividends History of Consolidated Edison (ED) (Click to enlarge)

Take a closer look at the full table of the biggest utility dividend stocks. The average price to earnings
ratio (P/E ratio) amounts to 17.48 and forward P/E ratio is 14.45. The dividend
yield has a value of 4.06 percent. Price to book ratio is 1.68 and price to
sales ratio 1.79. The operating margin amounts to 18.78 percent and the beta
ratio is 0.46. The average stock has a debt to equity ratio of 1.36.

I would like to say that any company could give you a high dividend yield if it pays out all of its profit. However, paying out all of its profit means that if there is any profit downturn at all, that dividend yield will not be there if it is a 100 per cent payout, the company will have to cut the dividend back in line with the lower profit.

Because of the Obama administration lack of respect for at least having a budget it leaves this country with no direction so I would like to see a dividend category that shows any companies that put a one time dividend before the year ends just for that reason a president who has no value for what it takes to be a leader. Lets call it the USA DIVIDEND because of no direction for what the future brings. There already has been some companies who try to keep there share holders happy because of Obama's lack of direction for what the taxes will be so they have pumped up this last year end dividend but that would be nice to know, like HFC they are not the only company that wants its investors to benefit from Obama's lack of direction. Just a Patriotic thought and now the 12 biggest charities who all there people who they help are going to the White House and say we got you elected and now the biggest contributions are the people you want to tax which means they will give less to charities, Obama wants the USA to have to rely on Govt. and Socialism he can not have both and he just bought all new Drones from CHINA AVIATION why did he not say that before the election they are being delivered by ships in ports in CALIF,TX AND NEW YORK so the union longshoremen can unload them, how much does he get on his face and they still think he is a AMERICAN, KENYA believe that if you can not look at the bill of ladings and borrow more from China for your children. Obama is as close to being a communist that there is that is his style of Govt. the Exec. order he uses to put the screw to us ask the parents in Dover about there children in boxes Obama does not care just now he gets to watch his Chinese Drone movies in the White House and then after milk and cookies from his mother in law on the third floor who we pay for turns the lights off and tells him it is bed time what a excuse of a President.

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What is a dividend? A dividend is a payment by the company to its shareholders. Normally, a stock pays 4 times a year a quarter dividend in order to participate investors at the company’s success. The amount of dividends in relation to the earnings of a company is called payout ratio. The figure measures the part of the earned money which is paid to the shareholders. A payout ratio of up to 50 percent (half of it's earnings) is a good figure. Sometimes it could be possible that companies can pay 90 percent of its net income due to its business model. Those businesses don’t need much money for growing.

The dividend amount in relation to the price that an investor pays is called the dividend yield. The value measures the return of the investor. A dividend yield of 5 percent (High-Yield) means that the investor receives 5 percent of his investment in cash - pretax within a year. This value is estimated for the full year dividends. Most of the highest yielding dividend stocks have only a big quarter dividend of more than one percent because of it's unsustainable dividends. The capital market expects a dividend dividend cut by the company.

An important date for investors is the ex-dividend date. This is the day on which the new investor doesn’t receive any dividend payments. He must wait 3 month for the next quarter dividend.

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